Music can serve as a primary gateway into white supremacist culture
Evidence
One individual who went on to join the KKK described how he was “recruited by the music.” A schoolyard friend gave him a cassette tape, and, as he observed: “I was like … , how do they know me? How is that happening? … It was loud rock music and screaming voices that … I liked so much. All of a sudden it had a message, too. I was hooked, that was my thing.” He observed that “the music got more radical, more hateful. So I started fitting in with this skinhead music… . At the age of 15, I wanted to get to know skinheads, that was the people that I only knew from the music, do they really exist? Where are they?” — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America, 343
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Shared musical culture can organize racism out of youth social life — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2992; A translocal notion of white race binds internationally scattered white supremacist fans — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2568; Translocal racial identity unites white supremacists across nations (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- A translocal notion of white race binds internationally scattered white supremacist fans
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2568 - Shared musical culture can organize racism out of youth social life
#contradicts(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2992 - Translocal racial identity unites white supremacists across nations
#expands(0.80) - Destranged music culture conditions acceptance of capitalist ordinariness.
#complicates(0.70) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 71